Artists Space

In The Poem About Love You Don't Write The Word Love
Film Series at Anthology Film Archives
Program 4

Screening
January 29, 2007, 7:30pm

Program 4 of the film series accompanying the exhibition In The Poem About Love You Don't Write The Word Love, held at Anthology Film Archives.

A grainy, black and white image of a vintage automobile driving on a winding, deserted road through a set of mountains. The car is in the foreground of the image, with part of its body cut off by the image
[A grainy, black and white image of a vintage automobile driving on a winding, deserted road through a set of mountains. The car is in the foreground of the image, with part of its body cut off by the image's frame.]

Harun Farocki and Andrei Ujica, Videograms of a Revolution (1992)
Videotape, colour and sound; 106 minutes. Courtesy of the artist.

Farocki and Ujica’s film details the five days in December of 1989 during which a popular uprising in Romania deposed and executed the Stalinist dictator Nicolae Ceauçescu. Questions regarding the intersection of television, violence, and democracy, all structure the terrain on which Videograms of a Revolution unfolds. The television cameras are the main actors in the piece, this is what remains in focus throughout.

Matthew Buckingham, Situation Leading to a Story (1999)
16mm film, black-and-white, sound; 21 minutes. Courtesy the artist and Murray Guy Gallery, New York.

Drawing upon disjunctive narratives and multiple filmic genres—including "serious" documentary, travelogue, and amateur movies—Buckingham stages his reception to four discarded home movies that he found on the streets of New York. Bringing to light larger capitalist and imperialist narratives and probing deeper forms of ideological meaning and ethical consequence, the film emphasizes the inaccessibility of historical truth.

Jeremy Deller and Mike Figgis, Battle of Orgreave (2001)
Video, colour, 60 minutes. Courtesy of Artangel, London and the artist.

Jeremy Deller and Mike Figgis reenactment titled The Battle of Orgreave from 2001 shifts between public and private cultures to expose discrepancies of the British news media and the hidden values surrounding the violent coal miners strike in South Yorkshire in June 1984.